The Base Stealer by Robert Francis

Name ______

The Base Stealer By Robert Francis

Poised between going on and back, pulled Both ways taut like a tightrope walker, Fingertips pointing the opposites, Now bouncing tiptoe like a dropped ball Or a kid skipping rope, come on, come on! Running a scattering of steps sidewise, How he teeters, skitters, tingles, teases, Taunts them, hovers like an ecstatic bird, He's only flirting, crowd him, crowd him, Delicate, delicate, delicate, delicate-now!

Accurate Text Quote My thinking about the author’s words “the author’s exact words” Find a simile

Find a simile

Find an example of repetition

Find an example of alliteration

Explain the imagery that the author creates

Name ______Metaphors By Sylvia Plath

I'm a riddle in nine syllables, An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils. O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers! This loaf's big with its yeasty rising. Money's new-minted in this fat purse. I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf. I've eaten a bag of green apples, Boarded the train there's no getting off

Accurate Text Quote My thinking about the author’s words “the author’s exact words” Metaphor An elephant, a ponderous house,

Metaphor A melon strolling on two tendrils.

Metaphor This loaf’s big with its yeasty rising.

Metaphor Money’s new-minted in this fat purse.

Metaphor I’m a means, a stage, a cow in calf

Allusion I’ve eaten a bag of green apples

What is this poem about? Name ______

School Fight You can’t hear a pin drop As all the kids gather around; They are vultures Waiting for the corpse Of the one who loses. The tall kid… He swings his fist with his hurricane force. A torrential spray of blood Explodes from the smaller boy’s nose And covers the tiled floor. The vultures fly away As the teachers quickly approach.

Accurate Text Quote My thinking about the author’s words “the author’s exact words” Metaphor

Hyperbole

Imagery

Name ______Brown Penny By William Butler Yeats I whispered, 'I am too young,' And then, 'I am old enough'; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might love. 'Go and love, go and love, young man, If the lady be young and fair.' Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the loops of her hair.

O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon. Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, One cannot begin it too soon.

Accurate Text Quote My thinking about the author’s words “the author’s exact words” Personification

Repetition

Name ______The Bells By Edgar Allen Poe (first stanza only) Hear the sledges with the bells-- Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells-- From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

Find three examples of onomatopoeia 1. ______2. ______3. ______

Why does Poe repeat the word bells?